Foster v. Wilmington Plantation Owners Ass'n

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

We granted William M. Foster’s applications for interlocutory appeal in these two related cases in order to consider an issue of first impression: the proper venue of an action to enforce a condominium association lien under the Georgia Condominium Act, OCGA § 44-3-70 et seq. The Act provides that the law governing foreclosure of liens for the improvement of real property applies here. Venue therefore properly lies in the county of the defendant’s residence rather than in the county where the property is located, in this case Chatham County, where the actions were…